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Richard Dillard Dixon of Edenton, N.C., alumnus of the University of North Carolina,
lawyer and businessman, clerk of court and superior court judge, went to Germany in
1946 for the Nuremberg war crime trials and in May 1947 was appointed to serve as
an alternate to any of the Tribunals. He participated in four of the twelve war crimes
trials held in Nuremberg under authority of the Allied Control Council Law No. 10,
specifically cases no. 1, no. 2, no. 5, and no. 9. Files concerning case no. 5, the
Flick trial, and case no. 9, the Einsatzgruppen trial, of the twelve trials of war
criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Allied Control Council Law
No. 10. The files consist almost entirely of mimeographed transcripts of daily proceedings
and of related documents; they contain some materials not included in the officially
published proceedings.

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[Identification of item], in the Richard Dillard Dixon Collection of Records of the
Nuremberg War Crime Trials, #3567, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Gift 1949

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Richard Dillard Dixon of Edenton, N.C., alumnus of the University of North Carolina,
lawyer and businessman, clerk of court and superior court judge, went to Germany in
1946 for the Nuremberg war crime trials and in May 1947 was appointed to serve as
an alternate to any of the Tribunals. He participated in four of the twelve war crimes
trials held in Nuremberg under authority of the Allied Control Council Law No. 10,
specifically cases no. 1, no. 2, no. 5, and no. 9.

Files concerning case no. 5, the Flick trial, and case no. 9, the Einsatzgruppen trial,
of the twelve trials of war criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under
Allied Control Council Law No. 10. The files consist almost entirely of mimeographed
transcripts of daily proceedings and of related documents; they contain some materials
not included in the officially published proceedings.